Preferred OS

When first learning to code my primary OS was Windows. I wanted to work more with system administration and also become more comfortable with the Command Line so I dual booted my laptop to have both Windows and Ubuntu installed.

I end up using Ubuntu 99% of the time and command line has become one of my greatest assets. Now I use the command line for almost everything: from installing packages, sifting through error log data, setting up a native LAMP stacks with multiple versions of PHP running, and keeping my OS updated/upgraded.

Languages

I enjoy working across the stack yet I have found myself gravitating to the front end.

I have experience working the the TALL stack as well as the MEVN stack.

Working with front end libraries and frameworks such as Vue and React are a large part of what I enjoy learning about.

Lately I have been diving into writing automated tests for front end applications.

I have a passion for learning vanilla JavaScript and how the modern frameworks actually work under the hood!

Tooling/Debugging

Having the proper tooling and skills to debug applications is equally as important as knowing a language.

For development I have used an array of different code editors and IDE's. For simple projects I prefer VS Code but my main IDE is PHP Storm. For debugging I prefer to use xdebug. I don't know how I ever programmed without it. Stepping through code and figuring out what is being outputted is helpful in finding code issues as well as understanding code logic and flow.

Another set of tools I use are the Chrome DevTools, particularly for debugging Javascript code. Along with the many development extensions offered by Chrome, I also utilize the Vue dev tools within the Chrome console.

Databases & SQL

The use of SQL and databases is crucial for any developers toolkit. I mostly work with relational databases including MySQL and SQL Server (MSSQL) for all of my applications. Everything from DDL: creating databases, schemas, tables to using DML to manipulate data: Selecting, inserting deleting or any other form of data manipulation, I use them daily in my professional and personal applications.

Within the Laravel world I am versed in writing Database migrations for table creation and updating data. When working with data my DB client of choice would be mysql workbench or DBeaver when working in Ubuntu, otherwise in Windows I like to use HeidiSQl.

Additional Development Skills

• For VCS I used Mercurial for a brief period but mostly use GIT and Github Repositories. Along with Github I do most of my commands from the CLI but also use GitKraken if I ever need a good GIT GUI. I am comfortable merging, creating branches, rebasing, cherry picking, committing and pushing to git repo's.
• I have knowledge of AWS concepts and services that Amazon offers. I have worked with Elastic Beanstalk deployments, setting up and ssh-ing in EC2 instances and creating and querying DynamoDB tables. I have more-so theoretical knowledge of various AWS services.
• I am familiar with open SSH as well as some networking concepts including: tunneling DNS configurations, ip forwarding and port forwarding.
• For continuous deployment I use Drone and corresponding drone yaml files for deployment configurations.
• I am comfortable using npm and composer and installing front-end and back-end packages and dependencies as needed on a per application basis.